The Truth About Janet Stadt: Secret Plutonium Injection Experiment

The Unconsented Plutonium Injection

• 📌 In 1946, Janet Stadt, a 41-year-old hairdresser, was admitted to a Rochester, N.Y. hospital for an ulcer treatment.
• 💉 Without her consent, doctors secretly injected her with plutonium, a radioactive element used in atomic bombs, as part of a study on its behavior in the human body.
• ⚠️ Janet was one of 18 Americans given plutonium from Los Alamos, the central laboratory of the Manhattan Project.
• ⚡ She received the highest dose of radiation among all test subjects, with the plutonium remaining in her system for life.

Long-Term Health Consequences

• 💔 For years, Janet's family believed she was a hypochondriac due to her chronic pain and extensive medical treatments.
• 🎗️ Her health never improved, and she tragically developed cancer six times.

Discovery of the Experiment

• 📦 The truth about the experiment only came to light decades later when a mysterious box of files from the federal government arrived on her grandson John Stadt's doorstep during the Clinton administration.
• 🧑‍⚖️ John, confused by the legal jargon in the files, consulted a tort attorney neighbor, Paul Nunes, who confirmed the devastating truth: his grandmother was part of a human experiment.
• 🎙️ John Stadt shares his family's story in a new podcast episode of "The Truth of the Matter" to expose this historical injustice.